In the Matter of the Receivership of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., 434 Mass. 51; 746 N.E.2d 513 (Mass. 2001)
A nonprofit consumer group (Health Care for All), was permitted, essentially as an amicus curiae, to participate in an appeal from the receivership proceedings for one of the state’s largest non-profit HMOs. The group argued that the public’s interest was not protected sufficiently by a rehabilitation plan for the HMO which was proposed by the…